NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Uttarakhand state, India last week passed an amendment to its controversial anti-conversion law expanding punishment to life imprisonment. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government managed to introduce the Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Bill, 2025 during an assembly session that turned chaotic over alleged Panchayat (local council) rigging. The […] The post India’s Harshest Anti-Conversion Law Approved in Uttarakhand appeared first o...| Morningstar News
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – A Christian girl rescued from a Muslim in Pakistan who abducted her said he forcibly converted her, sexually assaulted her as part of a sham Islamic marriage and forced her into prostitution. The forced prostitution resulted in serious health issues for the 16-year-old girl, whose name is withheld […] The post Kidnapping, Abuse Traumatize Christian Girl in Pakistan appeared first on Morningstar News.| Morningstar News
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Religious freedom in Pakistan is facing unprecedented threats as Muslim extremist groups increase their hold on public officials, according to a report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). The report, “Streets of Fear: Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2024/25,” which documents violations of such freedoms […] The post Islamist Influence Growing in Pakistan, Report Says appeared first on Morningstar News.| Morningstar News
SURABAYA, Indonesia (Morning Star News) – Officials and Muslim clerics in a village in West Java Province, Indonesia have closed a prayer house, expelled an evangelist and indefinitely halted all Christian activities there, media outlets reported. Citing lack of a worship building permit, state officials and Muslim clerics from the local chapter of the Indonesia Ulema […] The post Prayer House Closed, Evangelist Expelled in Indonesia appeared first on Morningstar News.| Morningstar News
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Prisoners from minority backgrounds, particularly Christians, face systemic bias in Pakistani jails and are subjected to abuse by prison staff and Muslim inmates, a new study shows. They are labeled as “untouchables” and given menial tasks like cleaning toilets, according to the study released on Aug. 15, “Hope […] The post Prisons in Pakistan Mistreat Christians, other Minorities, Study Says appeared first on M...| Morningstar News
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Christian mother in Somalia has been locked in a room with her infant daughter since Aug. 6 after Muslim relatives relocated her following an earlier escape, sources said. “My child has grown very thin for lack of enough food,” Fatuma Hassan, 28, told her husband by phone from Afgooye […] The post Christian Mother, Baby Locked in Room in Somalia appeared first on Morningstar News.| Morningstar News
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – A Muslim who put his faith in Christ after receiving a vision in a mosque in Uganda was hospitalized after relatives beat him, demolished his home and took in his wife and six children, sources said. Wambuzi Maka Uthman, a 39-year-old former sheikh (Islamic teacher), went to Friday prayers in […] The post Former Sheikh Beaten, Loses Family after Vision of Christ appeared first on Morningstar News.| Morningstar News
LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) – Two years after Islamist attacks on Christians in the Jaranwala area in Punjab Province, Pakistan, hopes for justice are dimming amid the sabotaging of prosecution efforts, advocates said. None of the perpetrators have been convicted after they ransacked and damaged more than 25 church buildings and 85 homes […] The post Justice Elusive 2 Years after Attacks on Christians in Pakistan appeared first on Morningstar News.| Morningstar News
NEW DELHI (Morning Star News) – Falsely accusing two nuns and a Christian man of trafficking three women in India, Hindu extremists with threats and assault forced the three tribal Christian women to sign a statement against their companions, sources said. “We will gang rape you if you do not do as we say,” the members […] The post Nuns in India Jailed, Christians Assaulted amid Baseless Charges appeared first on Morningstar News.| Morningstar News
Amnesty International this week called for the "quashing" of the convictions of 11 Christians in Libya sentenced to prison under charges that included “insulting Islam.”| Morningstar News
Efforts to curb abuse of Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws suffered a major setback on Thursday (July 24) when judges suspended a prior court order to form a commission to investigate misuse of the harsh laws, sources said.| Morningstar News
In what attorneys in Pakistan termed a “huge ray of hope,” a federal high court on Tuesday (July 15) directed the government to form an inquiry commission within 30 days to investigate blatant abuse of blasphemy laws.| Morningstar News
A judge on Wednesday (July 9) handed a life sentence to a Muslim found guilty of abducting and raping a Christian girl but ignored accusations of forcible conversion and fraudulent marriage, her attorney said.| Morningstar News
Police have taken no action in the forcible conversion/marriage of a Christian girl kidnapped in Pakistan on June 11, a rights advocate said.| Morningstar News
Fulani herdsmen this week killed at least nine Christians in Plateau state, Nigeria, following the slaughter of 27 others days before, sources said.| Morningstar News
In a significant legal victory against forced conversions/marriages in Pakistan, a civil court has annulled the marriage of a Christian woman who was given to a Muslim man as a child and coerced to convert to Islam and marry him, sources said.| Morningstar News
Fulani herdsmen on Monday (March 10) killed at least six Christian villagers in central Nigeria after stabbing another to death the prior day because he objected to them grazing their cattle on his property, sources said.| Morningstar News
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Hardline Muslims in eastern Uganda on Feb. 15 beat and stabbed an evangelist after he and his team led a Muslim widow to Christ during open-air gospel preaching, sources said.| Morningstar News
Church leaders and others in Pakistan lauded the producers and cast of a TV drama for risking their lives to broadcast an unprecedented, national media portrayal of the violent injustice resulting from blasphemy laws.| Morningstar News
A court in Bahawalpur, Pakistan on Tuesday (May 30) handed the death penalty to a 22-year-old Christian on an unsubstantiated conviction under the country’s blasphemy laws, sources said.| Morningstar News
